Month: January 2010

For those who want or need to build Zabbix 1.8 on CentOS 5: there is an excellent RPM Spec file available at Andrew Farley’s blog. He’s also been kind enough to host a series of precompiled RPM packages.

If you look at the changelog you might find yours truly. I’ve contributed a patch to add a couple of dependencies and to fix a couple of bugs. So I thought I should share.

First of all the RPM Spec file:

http://repo.andrewfarley.com/centos/specs/zabbix.spec

If you’d like to compile your own packages you might follow this guide:

# yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
# yum install rpmdevtools
# rpmdev-setuptree

To compile for your running architecture:

# rpmbuild -bb --clean zabbix.spec

Or if you’d like to build for a specific architecture:

# rpmbuild -bb --clean --target i686 zabbix.spec

After the compile process you’ll find the RPM files in the following directory:

~/rpmbuild/RPMS/zabbix*.rpm